2. Technical barrier
• This can be anything from background noise and hardware
problems to having a bad connection, this type of barrier can easily
cripple the progress you have made in communicating, just due to
the fact that for example, if your microphone isn't working properly
the person you are talking to will either not be able to hear you or
there be will incredible sound problems, or it could be that your
internet connection is bad so the person you are talking to will
having problems hearing what you are saying or they will not be
able to hear you at all. Background noise is a real problem when it
comes to communicating with someone through a computer but
you can easily solve this by purchasing a background noise
cancelling headset.
http://www.creative.com/products/headphones/usage/noisecancel
.asp
3. Accents
• Accents can incredibly ruin conversations due to the
other person either not understanding what you are
saying or will miss out words that they were supposed
to pay attention for them to understand, unfortunately
countries such as the UK have a lot of people with
different accents so sometimes it becomes complicated
to communicate with one another. This is countered in
lectures and other types of speeches using devices
called Simultaneous Interpretation Headsets which
translates the language of the person talking into what
ever language you understand.
http://www.lexiconusa.com/pages/Sales-Translation-
Equipment.html
4. Body language barrier
• In some countries such as the UK we use hand shaking
to greet one another but in other countries hand
shaking is not expectable or means absolutely nothing,
for example Japan and Chinese people express
introduction in a different way such as bowing. There
are even negative body language that the British use
but other countries wouldn’t even understand what
they mean. To help prevent problems with this you can
use the Internet to search for varies greetings and
other types of body language in the country/countries
that you are going to.
http://www.samdiener.com/2009/10/body-language-
in-different-cultures/
5. Presentation Faults
• When doing a presentation there are many type’s of
communication barriers that the presenter should
account for when making his/her presentation, such as;
the language that the viewers speak, the volume of the
sound of the presentation or the image and text sizes
so people can read what is written. This is a big
problem when doing a presentation but there are ways
to help with it, for example; you can purchase a
presentation remote which will allow you to zoom in so
the viewers can read what is written and a sound
controls to increase the volume.
http://www.pixmania.co.uk/uk/uk/19919/xx/xx/104/9
/criteresn.html
6. Eye Contact
• Keeping eye contact is important when communicating due
to the fact that it signifies that you are paying attention and
following what is being said with your complete attention
on the person talking, when presenting moving from one
person to the next and keeping eye contact keeps not just
the listeners concentrating but also the presenter due to
the fact that it keeps you concentrated on what you are
saying, when you lose concentration on what you are
saying it is common to say words such as uh, um and so a
lot more than is necessary. This can be avoided by using
programs such as Skype to have a meetings or
conversations so it would not be necessary to keep eye
contact. (http://beta.skype.com/en/)
7. Physical and Metal Disabilities
• You should account for disabilities when presenting or
communication with others, for example if you are talking
to someone who has a mental disability that causes them
to have a brain of a child you would use non complicated
words to help them understand, or if someone has a
problem hear (e.g. deaf or hard hearing) then you will need
to counter this by using sign language or presenting with
words at an acceptable format and size. A technical way to
counter this would be to supply those with bad hearing
with hearing aide conversation amplifiers which makes it
easier to hear at a distance or in noisy environments.
(http://www.actiononhearingloss.org.uk/shop/products-
for-hearing-conversation/elite-listeners.aspx)
8. Information Overload
• An information overload is pretty much what it sounds
like which is a overload of information which means
that if you continuously feed someone to much
information it will overload their brain and it will end
up that they wont understand what is being said which
can cause problems such as stress and anxiety or you
can suffer from lack of time when doing work or other
such things. To help reduce information overload you
can use programs to help prioritize your information
into for example “slides” which will help feed both you
and if your presenting the information to viewers it will
also help them take in information one “slide” at a
time. http://office.microsoft.com/en-gb/powerpoint/
